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On the eve of the Arabian conquest ( in the beginning of the VII centuries
A.D.) the main religious cults confessed by the ancestors of Tajik people
were Zoroastrizm, Manikheystvo, Buddhism and Judaism and also Christianity
of Nestorianian sense. Judaism was widely spread in many large cities. All
the cults named above were gradually supplanted by Islam. In the middle of
the XI century the processes of islamisation of the population were
practically completed. Soon after the death of Prophet Muhammad in the VII
century A.D.. there appeared some directions or sects in Islam the main of
which that existing nowadays are Sunnizm and Shiizm. The overwhelming part
of Tajik profess Islam of Sunnizm sense.
The followers of Shiizm-Shiite (from arabian "Shiite Ali"- "group of Ali")
admit the lawful successor of Prophet Muhammad only the forth caliph Ali ibn
Abu Talib (656-661 the cousin and the son-in-law of Muhammad) and his
descendants. In the VIII century Shiites have broken up to several sects
from which is widely spread the sect of Ismailiya in the territory of
Tajikistan mainly in the Mountainous Badakhshan. The name it has received
from the name Ismail who died in 762 , the son of the sixth Imam, the leader
of Shiite community Jafar as Sadik. Nowadays the leader and Imam of Ismailit
society is prince Karim Aga Khan IV who was born in 1936 in Geneva in
Switzerland and constantly lives in France. Indeed Kulob regions people have
been followed the Sunni sect of the Islam although the Shiit sect have its
followers in tajikistan in Kulob so few followers can be found.
The important role in spreading Islam all over played the activity of the
preaches-suffies belonging to different mystic-ascetic directions of Islam
("tassavuf" or Sophizm). So in XI-XII centuries there arise suffi
brotherhoods and orders the leader of which were pirs and ishons
(Pir - the Persian equivalent of the Arabic word Shaykh in the sense
of a spiritual guide or Sufi master, qualified to lead disciplines, murids,
on the mystical path. Ishan - Known as the relatives and followers of
the Prophet Muhammed (S.Sa). Some of these orders exist and act nowadays. In
the history of Islam in Tajikistan and other countries of the Central Asia a
great trace made such kind of orders: Nakshbandiya, Kubraviya, Kadiriya and
Yasaviya. The Russian who live in Tajikistan profess orthodoxy -one of the
main directions in Christianity finally issued in 1054.
Indeed Kulob people has the strong ties to religion which is influential in
practical meanings too. Politicaly and socially religious teachers has the
influential role in Kulob peoples life. During USSR period although many
religious practices and teachings have been restricted but people have been
practicing in some level their religious believes.
After Independence in Kulob religious activities and Building Mosques and
teaching the Arabian language have been increasing. Actually now in
every Rayon in every City and in each street there is a Mosque which is main
place for the Muslims to practice their Islamic believes.
In other hand as I mentioned in History of Kulob. Kulob has long
lasting historical period that lies to thousand years ago, that's why there
are many Tombs of the (Hazrats and Avliyos) who is known in Islamic world
well and are respected by all around Islamic World. In the city of the Kulob
there is a tomb of the Hz. Mir Said Ali Hamadoni ( known as the well-known
Islamic thinker and avliyo). Hundreds of the people are visiting Hz. Mir
Said Ali Hamadoni tomb. Indeed there many other tomb's belonging to the
well-known (Avlios), like Hz.Shoi Homush.
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